{"id":15675,"date":"2017-12-20T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=15675"},"modified":"2017-12-20T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:07:29","slug":"a-beautiful-portion-of-gods-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/pastors-word-for-the-week\/a-beautiful-portion-of-gods-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Portion of God&#8217;s Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_p1\"><span class=\"aolmail_s1\">The Christmas story has a lesson for us today, because sometimes you and I make the mistake of thinking that only the &#8220;right&#8221; things or comfortable things are part of God&#8217;s design. A good job, robust health, close friends, a comfortable house, money in a savings account&#8212;all give us the impression that we must be doing something &#8220;right.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_p1\"><span class=\"aolmail_s1\">Then, when the inconvenience or discomfort or hardship hits, we wonder what &#8221; went wrong.&#8221;<span class=\"aolmail_Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_p1\"><strong><span class=\"aolmail_s1\">Maybe nothing went wrong. Maybe we simply need to realize that our most unpleasant circumstances, much like Mary&#8217;s and Joseph&#8217;s, often have a way of becoming a beautiful portion of God&#8217;s magnificent design.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;] The Christmas story has a lesson for us today, because sometimes you and I make the mistake of thinking that only the &#8220;right&#8221; things or comfortable things are part of God&#8217;s design. A good job, robust health, close friends, a comfortable house, money in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors-word-for-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}